[Ram Dass Here And Now] Ep. 183 – Psychedelics: Understanding the Risks and Rewards

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• Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Listening to a recording of Ram Dass (1931-2019, Harvard psychologist turned Hindu guru) talk about psychadelics this morning was really interesting but... perhaps the shortest & most interesting point was his view that science & the intelligentsia were the leaders of society, and that it was the consensus that the Priestly class of academics back then that was as problematic as that of the government or financial world.

  More importantly, what we normally imagine as the most poignant opposition to the spiritual sixties, stodgy old Protestantism, was not really a relevant force. Perhaps this is even because Ram Dass heavily drew from Christianity, and viewed legitimate Christianity as a natural ally, and something that was co-oped yars ago by the establishment. Christianity cannot actually be a force for Capitalism, or for the US government, or for any kind of institution, because at its root it is a radical rejection of human institutions in favor of faith in God.

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  • squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I though we've discussed before that psychedelics are just drunkenness and haven't really helped too many people

    the popes have basically condemned "unfettered" capitalism but have also said capitalism is ok as long as it isn't sinful (like, pays a family wage to husbands so they can provide for their family?)

    wait so if protestantism wasn't the alternative to leftist hippie psychedelia what was back then?

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    • Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If you go back and read some negative Catholic takes on the Reformation, and look at things like the tailor-king of Munster, you will really see how insane the reformation could be.

      E. Michael Jones' Jewish Revolutionary Spirit has a lot of interesting insights into this stuff as well.

      Perhaps I will post some of it someday.

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